Tuesday, 10. March 2009
A sixth sense - enhancing the real-space with gestures
ska, 20:03h
This TED presentation by Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry shows an incredible innovation from the MIT Media Lab. A projected, gesture controlled interface to the net in realtime and real space.
Gesture into thin air, to control projections of a computer interface to objects in front of you. With the combination of off-the-shelf technologies like a small projector, a video camera, a cellphone and a computer you can enhance yourself.
The gestural metaphors for taking a picture, making a telephone call or looking at a watch are intriguing. As the components for this technology cost about 350$ right now, I suppose a lot of disruption will happen in the cellphone business in the next months.
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